The Making of A Soviet Scientist: My Adventures in Nuclear Fusion and Space - From Stalin to Star Wars
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ROALD Z. SAGDEEV is Distinguished Professor of Physics and director of the East-West Center for Space Science at the University of Maryland. As director of the Space Research Institute, the eminent physicist led the joint U.S.-Soviet Apollo-Soyuz mission and the international mission to Halley's comet. In addition to his scientific career, Dr. Sagdeev played a major political role during the first five years of perestroika, serving as an advisor to Mikhail Gorbachev at the Geneva, Washington, and Moscow summits.
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Partial table of contents:
Tickets to Mars.
Going to Kazan.
War.
Only Physics Makes Sense.
The Kurchatov Institute.
My Mentors.
Landau.
Kapitsa: The Lone Warrior.
A Hostage to Politics.
Fusion.
Farewell, Moscow.
The Giant Leap Forward.
The Academy of Sciences: The House of Lords.
The Beginning of a Space Career.
The Chief Designer and the Chief Theorist of Cosmonautics.
The War of the Titans.
War Games in the Academy.
From Here to Eternity.
The War of the Worlds.
Big Oleg.
Gorbachev.
The Call of the Name.
The Revenge of the Comet.
In Place of an Epilogue.
Glossary.
Index.
Tickets to Mars.
Going to Kazan.
War.
Only Physics Makes Sense.
The Kurchatov Institute.
My Mentors.
Landau.
Kapitsa: The Lone Warrior.
A Hostage to Politics.
Fusion.
Farewell, Moscow.
The Giant Leap Forward.
The Academy of Sciences: The House of Lords.
The Beginning of a Space Career.
The Chief Designer and the Chief Theorist of Cosmonautics.
The War of the Titans.
War Games in the Academy.
From Here to Eternity.
The War of the Worlds.
Big Oleg.
Gorbachev.
The Call of the Name.
The Revenge of the Comet.
In Place of an Epilogue.
Glossary.
Index.
